Working Verse in Victorian Scotland
Working Verse in Victorian Scotland

Author: Kirstie Blair

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-06-20

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0192581961

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This volume reassesses working-class poetry and poetics in Victorian Britain, using Scotland as a focus and with particular attention to the role of the popular press in fostering and disseminating working-class verse cultures. It studies a very wide variety of writers who are unknown to scholarship, and assesses the political, social, and cultural work which their poetry performed. During the Victorian period, Scotland underwent unprecedented changes in terms of industrialization, the rise of the city, migration, and emigration. This study shows how poets who defined themselves as part of a specifically Scottish tradition responded to these changes. It substantially revises our understanding of Scottish literature in this period, while contributing to wider investigations of the role of popular verse in national and international cultures.

IF ONLY I KNEW: PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
IF ONLY I KNEW: PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS

Author: Rasheed Odunade Akande

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-07-30

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1312150823

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The first attempt by the author to tell his tale in poetic lines; the book touches on the story of childhood, adolescence and young adulthood as experienced. Also, it takes a cue from others experiences mainly of people close by since every experience is shared between or amongst people. The book in its tale telling attempt drifts through time and touches on diverse topics as love, death, hopes and wishes e.t.c

Chopin in Britain
Chopin in Britain

Author: Peter Willis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1317166868

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In 1848, the penultimate year of his life, Chopin visited England and Scotland at the instigation of his aristocratic Scots pupil, Jane Stirling. In the autumn of that year, he returned to Paris. The following autumn he was dead. Despite the fascination the composer continues to hold for scholars, this brief but important period, and his previous visit to London in 1837, remain little known. In this richly illustrated study, Peter Willis draws on extensive original documentary evidence, as well as cultural artefacts, to tell the story of these two visits and to place them into aristocratic and artistic life in mid-nineteenth-century England and Scotland. In addition to filling a significant hole in our knowledge of the composer’s life, the book adds to our understanding of a number of important figures, including Jane Stirling and the painter Ary Scheffer. The social and artistic milieux of London, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh are brought to vivid life.